San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-01-05
LATEST TELEGRAPH NEWS
From all Parts Of the Globe, Con-
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w. X. Merriam Is speaker OF the Min.
nesota legislature
Sugar house ut ST. Barnard, La +,
burned; loss, S65,0OO
| Nebraska elects a Van. wyck man,
Harlan, speaker Of her assembly.
Judge Hustled WIS elected speaker Of
| the New York assembly y, sterday.
The editor heaters, O'Daysnd brother.
OF Springfield, No. are under arrest.
Grover returns to his official duties
but still complains ofrheumatic pains.
The refrigeration project nc Houston
promises success.
The wanton murder of four Mexic9Ds
reported from Guadalupe county.
The Confederate HOme concerts Melted
| about 1000 for the Home
The Austrian EN- rress Ia very sick and
her riding days are over.
That Wood, street London fire. de.
stroyed $5C0.O0O property.
The English cabinet lie not exactly g
happy family.
Houston decides to surrender her char
ter and will petition the legislature for an
act authorizing the change.
Chicago carpenters are perfecting
plans looking to an s-hour-day for next
season.
The German government assures Aus.
tria that she has made no Russian al
lance inimical to Austria's interests.
Gladstone will not express any opin-
ion on the plan Of the campaign In Ire
land.
Henry X. Boyer. of Philadelphia. ia
speaker elect of the PENNSYLVANIA legis-
la ture.
Hamlate will contest the guhernatorial
chair Of Minnesota with Go ernor-elect
MeGill.
A passenger train ran into sleigh
near Pausnkee lake, Wis, and killed
three men.
Portuguese cortes dissolves because
the opposition elected a president Of the
chamber.
The Euglish cabinet is growing less
tory and more liberal In the make up OF
Its members.
Salisbury finds the road to cabinet con-
struction ke that over Jordan" a hard
one to travel.
The senseless Ganards abont malprac-
tice In connection with Logan's death
are exploded.
Charleston reports more earthquake
shakes, as also Summerville and West
ern Maryland.
Ohio legislature met and adjourned
without organizing. ont Of respect to
LOgan's memory.
The new Wabash receivership will
make no change in the traffic regula-
tions OF the road.
No session OF the United States senate
yesterday. out of respect 30 General
Logan's memory
Explosion In n Mons, Germany, coal
pit imprisons 80 miners; most of them
will come out dead.
Cleveland commufes the death sem
tence passed upon PARROT, Of Arkansas,
to five year, penal service.
United States donations to the Ma
tional Irish league for the last two
weeks Of 1856 we're S25 600.
Mills, of dates tor the Sunset Cox are
rival candirexas, and craftsmanship OF
the ways and means committee.
Jefferson, Texas, reports ground frozen
four inches, thermometer Is degrees be-
low freezing, four inches Of snow and
more to follow.
A back full Of bnckshot betrayed the
identity Of the negro who had been help
ing himself at night t. groceries from a
Fort Worth stock
Hanover, N. H., had q close call and
came very near being wiped out with
fire, the thermometer standing 20 de-
grees below zero.
Wilson county has purchased a poor
farm and will utilize its Hanper labor.
The want of water is seriously felt in
town and country.
An Irish woman named Sarah Bra
n Oh lays claim to the entire Stewart es-
tate as natural heir. ami claims that
stewart died intestate. Ben Butler has
her case.
Christmas tree lights fired the Odes-
calchi palace, Rome; jewels, missals,
pictures, ancient furniture and other
vslusbles were destroyed. Loss, ST. ,000.-
900; no insurance.
All sorts of rumors are rife in New
York conc. rning cOnspiracies tOremOve
POwderly and make Mcclure. of New
York, head of the order with headquar-
tiers In New York.
Henry Greenwall, the well known
theatrical manager, has purchased the
Grosbeck property opposite tue CaJitOl
hotel, Main street, Houston. and con-
templates erecting thereon the finest
opera house in the southwest.
The stations at E. Ruo and San Jose,
81 miles west at Albuquerque. were
robbed by -four men who laid for the
train, but it had been Eorewarned and
did not stop.
The Armour boycott ia causing con-
siderable discussion in the labor ranks
as well as outside of them. The boycott